Gooseberry Fool

Ingredients

• 2 quarts green gooseberries
• loaf sugar
• very little water
• rich boiled custard
• frothed cream

Instructions

1. Pick the stems and blossoms from the green gooseberries. Put them in a stew pan with their weight in loaf sugar and a very little water.
2. Stew until sufficiently soft, then pass the pulp through a sieve.
3. When the mixture is cold, add rich boiled custard until it reaches the consistency of thick cream.
4. Put the fool into a glass bowl and lay frothed cream on the top.